how we work---- rest----- and play.

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday November 20, 2002 13:20 by € - recuperem els carrers! on your street.

prague today

or prague next week & next year. or Thessalonika next year. or Dublin next year. or any city you go to.

we have had many years now of facing police armed as soldiers upon the street.
We were not the first to face such.
We many of us grew up in countries where police had long stood upon the street as soldiers with soldiers and using the media to hide their misdeeds.
Today
Prague, 9:40) Bad news. AntiNATO Convergence center was closed over one hour ago. The owner of the object, CKD Trakce, denounced a contract this morning. „We will clean the space only, there is no chance to use this space,“ one anarchist told Alarm magazin.
http://alarm.solidarita.org/index.php?id=155

alarm.solidarita.org/index.php?id=155

3:00am Wed Nov 20 '02

20.11.2002 - The Convergence center, the place of artwork of demonstrators where banners, flags etc. were made, is being evicted at the moment. In the morning, an activist who had rented the place was phoned by the boss of the CKD, the company which own this place.

The boss said he have to go to the company immediately. After he came there, the boss said to him the Convergence center have to be evicted immediately because antiNATO activist "damage the good reputation of the company." Eviction is being watched by a lot of anti-riot policemen.

It is also important to note that the Convergence center was watched by the police since it learnt where it is. Yesterday, about ten anti-riot policemen occupied the only route leading to the Convergence center and checked ID and filmed everybody coming there

No journalist were allowed to reach the place by the police.

-------------------------

Prague: the city of ghosts

20.11.2002 - There is even first consequence of the NATO summit in Prague. Their manage to literally evicted whole Prague. Today, last day before summit, the city is really empty. Trams, usually hardly overcrowded, are nearly empty and only around one in four seats is occupied! Also, the biggest tram and bus station, where you can normally see a big crowd of people constantly, are now empty.

On the other hand, the city is full of cops. There is police everywhere. You can always hear police siren around the city and see police every one hundred meters. All people who look "suspicious" are again and again controlled. Many people say that this is the same method as bolshevik's police used before 1989 - constant control of those who don't agree with official policy...


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$~~
~€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€~~

I would like to quote from an interview with
a leading Prague art activist involved in the
Black Market project in the 1980´s.
"we found little opportunity to engage in open dialogue, we were censored, we were blacklisted, we printed in basements, we went to Poland which was slightly more free, the Black Market and Fluxus movements gave us a network of contacts which last to this day"
..."after the velvet revolution we feel the situation is more open for capital but not for our culture".
..."our networks did not wither or die"

The Prague press has alledged that prague indymedia has been "taken over" by foreign activists.

no.
we are a transnational collective.
our roots are in the struggle between truth and lies police acting as soldiers and the victims of capitalism over generations.
The torch has been passed from generation to generation, even as others thought to think the "left" had collapsed, the "alternatives" had gone mad, the anarchists safely evicted.

We are a transnational collective.
our friends do not reclaim the streets.
but now they watch our television.
listen to our radio.
read our words.
find our sattelites.

Policemen of Prague be careful for we have long memories and our vengance comes sweetly and slow.

We did not assemble a few thousand in London to protest against World Capitalism without thinking of the cost to ourselves.
We did not enter the blacklists without considering how to continue operating.
We did not face your power and fear without support.
We few hundreds that began this global revolution, this global resurgence of resistance, did so in the spirit of play and comedy and satire, and the firm knowledge that you would underestimate us.
as you did then, as you do everywhere when we begin.
We are now numbered in millions.
and we have changed political discourse forever.
and police/soldiers of the great "democracies" you will never turn the clock back.
Sr. Di Martino rest in peace.
as all the 20th century fighters for justice.
your descendants have just begun.